Kenneth Chang

@Rand_Simberg No president since LBJ, R or D, has cared much about space. And W. gave you Griffin.

@kchangnyt I agree. But actually, Reagan did. He pushed for the Commercial Space Launch Act, and got it.

@kchangnyt And actually, I don't know whether we wouldn't have commercial crew without Obama. Hard to do that counterfactual.

@Rand_Simberg Hillary would have pushed it, but no R not named Newt.

@Rand_Simberg And Griffin would quite possibly continued as administrator—all Constellation all the time, stretched, not canceled.

@kchangnyt Possibly. I will agree that McCain would have been terrible for space, based on his irrational behavior with regard to RD-180.

@Rand_Simberg Did Mitt ever say, “NASA” or “space”?

@kchangnyt Well, he did say he'd fire someone for suggesting a moon base, right after hiring moonbaseophile Mike Griffin as an adviser.